Civil War and the Reconstruction Assessment

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Across
  1. 2. Ended slavery in confederate states
  2. 8. Government based on consent of the people.
  3. 9. When one part of a country that wants to become independent, like the South during the U.S. Civil War.
  4. 13. Granted African American men the right to vote.
  5. 14. Members of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.
  6. 17. To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  7. 19. Goal was to preserve the Union
  8. 20. system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
  9. 21. Made travel westward quicker and more efficient in the 1800s.
Down
  1. 1. Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
  2. 3. Separated the sticky seeds from the fibers in short-staple cotton
  3. 4. A network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
  4. 5. War in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy.
  5. 6. Abolished Slavery
  6. 7. Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
  7. 10. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
  8. 11. Union
  9. 12. Confederacy
  10. 15. Segregation and disenfranchisement laws
  11. 16. Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States,"
  12. 18. President during the Reconstruction